Bananas and Detox!

Detoxification is a process and can be a gentleon your couch contemplating the universe, the banana
cleansing ora more rigorous therapy, where manycan always come along for the ride. There are so
foods are completelyavoided over a long period ofmany aspects to this strange and wonderful fruit. Even
time.its shape is a bit mysterious; conjuring images of
The detoxifying program you would choose wouldtropical islands and sun-filled days. Did you know that
depend for themost part on the condition of yourthe word "banana" originates from the Arabic and
elimination system and yourove-rall health.means finger? Doesn�t that make you
Bananas: All That Potassium And Carmen Mirandawonder where the rest of the hand is? I have been
Too!hooked on bananas ever since I was a child, and Miss
"�We have old-fashioned tomahto, LongChiquita, drawn by Dik Brown who also created the
Island potahto, but Yes, we have no bananas. WeCampbell kids, used to sing to me through the television
have no bananas today.."- Folk song by Frank Silverin my parents� living room. (I always
and Irving Cohen (1923)wondered why she never had her own show. She
Whether you are off to Rio following the colorful trailwas so much cuter than Ed Sullivan.
of Carmen Miranda�s fruit-filled hat or seated